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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By : Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By: Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and show you how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization. This book starts with a brief introduction to the new features in MySQL 8, and then quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day-to-day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. There is also a special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Overview of partitioning

The concept of partitioning relates to the physical aspects of data storage in the database. If you look at the SQL standards, they do not give much information on the concept, and the SQL language itself intends to work independently of which media or data structure is used for storing information or data specific to different schemas, tables, rows, or columns. Advanced database management systems have added means of specifying the physical location used for data storage as hardware, the file system, or as both. In MySQL, the InnoDB storage engine provides support for these purposes with the notion of tablespace.

Partitioning enables us to distribute parts of individual tables to be stored as separate tables at different locations in the file system. Additionally, the distribution is accomplished with user specified rules provided, such as in the form...